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Willow Smith reveals she’s polyamorous in candid chat with mother Jada on Red Table Talk
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Willow Smith opened up about her decision to live a polyamorous lifestyle during a candid conversation with her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith on Red Table Talk.
Joined by her maternal grandmother, Adrienne ‘Gammy’ Banfield Norris, the 20-year-old daughter of Will Smith continued her tendency to bring it all to the Red Table on Wednesday’s episode of the popular Facebook Watch show.
The topic of conversation for the show was polyamory and Willow left her grandmother shocked by her decision to be involved in more than one romantic relationship at the same time.
The chat began with Jada asking Willow to explain how she came to chose a polyamorous lifestyle.
Willow replied: ‘With polyamory, I feel like the main foundation is the freedom to be able to create a relationship style that works for you and not just stepping into monogamy because that’s what everyone around you says is the right thing to do.’
She continued: ‘So, I was like, how can I structure the way that I approach relationships with that in mind? Also, doing research into polyamory, the main reasons why monogamous relationships – or why marriage, why divorces happen – is infidelity.’
For those who don’t remember, her mother and father made headlines after it was revealed Jada had an ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina during a period in which her marriage to Will was on a break.
Jada recalled the moment her daughter spoke to her about polyamory as she stated: ‘When you were like, “Hey, this is my get down”, I was like, “I totally get it.”‘
‘Wanting to set up your life in a way that you can have what it is that you want, I think anything goes as long as the intentions are clear. You know what I mean?’
However Gammy found it harder to get her head around the idea as she stated: ‘For somebody like me, it feels like it’s really all just centered around sex.’
She continued: ‘Even outside of the counseling that you get from your pastor before you get married, ’cause most people that get married, you know, will get counseling from their pastors because there is a religious aspect to it, a God aspect to it, Jada.
‘And we had deep conversation about, what does this mean to us? What do we wanna create for ourselves? And we actually talked about polyamory, and was that something that we wanted to explore? We had that conversation.’
However, Willow explained that her decision was more motivated by freedom, than sex.
‘In my friend group, I’m the only polyamorous person, and I have the least sex out of all of my friends,’ she stated.
Red Table Talk is available to stream on Facebook Watch, with new episodes dropping on Wednesdays.
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